Even some business leaders have stepped up to fill the leadership gap.

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Meanwhile, domestic Chinese brokers are springing up to fill the gap.

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Companies like Virgin HealthMiles, which incentivizes healthy living with cash and prizes, and Alere, which focuses on connecting people with their caregivers through technology, have already begun stepping up to fill the care gap.

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Over the past 12 months, Lendio has seen a significant surge in the number of alternative lenders that are stepping up to the plate to fill in the funding gap and provide loans to small business owners.

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Finnish girls and Tamil refugees, who now make up 5% of the population, fill the gap.

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Mobile-developer boot camps, which are popping up around the country, can fill in the knowledge gap with intensive do-it-yourself training.

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Britain is signed up to other EU justice policies, and various arrangements could fill the gap, however clunkily, until opt-back-ins are secured.

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If you can't afford to grow your start-up to the next level, angel investors may be able to fill the gap.

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In an ideal world, America's politicians would come up with a package of medium-term spending cuts and tax reforms to fill the country's fiscal gap.

ECONOMIST: A better way

Having equity crowdfunders come into the market and fill the gap created by sophisticated investors passing on these later stage, larger deals would set investors up for failure, and should be avoided.

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